Sports are not something you often see in your tabletop gaming. Society, possibly as far back as there has been a society, has had some sort of sport for entertainment. Wrestling, boar hunting, gladiatorial combat, baseball, horse racing, tag, and on and on. Yet despite the prominence of sports in cultures, especially our current society, […]
Make Like A Gaming Pirate Part 1: Introduction & The Legend of Zelda
Every day, we’re surrounded with a huge amount of media. TV, books, music, movies, comics, video games, and everything that the internet can throw at you in a barrage of stories, characters, plots, events, and situations. Subconsciously, I think many of us take these things that we encounter in our regular lives and incorporate them […]
Getting The Party Started
As a GM, there are few things I hate more upon starting a new game than the mess that inevitably arises from getting a load of PCs, who may not have anything at all to do with one another, into a vague semblance of a coherent group. Most of the time, it just feels like […]
A Strange Devil in the Details
On Twitter a while back, I tried to start a conversation and RPG resource trending topic called #rpgoddities. My goal was to have little strange things that could serve as things that could creep players out, be the seed for an adventure, a complication to an ongoing adventure, or be a red herring to mess […]